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Serverless Applications with Node.js
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Serverless Applications with Node.js

by Slobodan Stojanovic, Aleksandar Simovic
March 2019
Intermediate to advanced
352 pages
9h 39m
English
Manning Publications
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6 Level up your API

This chapter covers

  • How authentication and authorization work in serverless applications
  • Implementing authentication and authorization in your serverless application
  • Identifying your users through social identity providers

Authentication and authorization are one of many challenges you face when developing distributed applications. The challenge lies in distributing the authorized user, along with its permissions, across all application distributed services and properly integrating third-party authentications.

This chapter shows you how to implement authentication and authorization in your serverless application by enabling it for Aunt Maria’s customers and their pizza orders. You’ll learn the difference between authentication ...

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